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Youre talking about the adapt bus actions and contrast that with the montgomery in alabama bus boycott. Yes. You know, you already spoke about the connection between the Africanamerican Community or people of color and disability and there is still a movement, from what i understand, in the Disability Community with people of color to kind of start bringing those voices into the movement. Yes, and the movement has been very, very wide in terms of its public face and the way that its been presented to the public, i would say. I think its changing. Its starting to there is a lot more work to do and we really were very, very mindful of that and we want to approach it that way. So, for sure, im not saying its all fixed everywhere, but definitely thats a really key part of the story we want to tell. And if i could just relay one little thing. Yesterday, one of the ....
Consider different from you. And we thought its best to, you know, implement a curriculum that will educate them and actually met with derek wednesday. And i got a lot of great feedback from him. And, you know, at first i even made a mistake. We were so used to in high school to learning that these young people are called special education, and derek, you know, corrected me. I was so happy he did because we want to make sure were making everything correct in our draft once we present it to the board of supervisors that we have everything correct. And i have some copies. I dont know if i handed to you guys yet. So, it really is just a draft and its just talking about how we want this to be implemented. We do have some student advisory councilmembers in our committee. So, they get to theyre going to be able to present this to the board of education while we present it to the board of supervisors, urging them to, you know, pass this. We just think that this, even though its a really small ....
That we start thinking about a discussion of some kind of citywide initiative, citywide activities about this. Maybe we think about announcing it as a very special day. Maybe its a very special week. Theres a lot to talk about. I think all ages would be interested in this, as cathy mentioned, a lot of us dont know about this. Even people who are living here in spite of how high profile all the activities were. We were thinking that we can involve many other, you know, activists and artists in the community, access dance and bus buddies and the ada and how it impacted people with aids and so on and have resource fairs. My main point is that i think we can perhaps start thinking about this as a real opportunity to educate and inspire people and this doesnt happen too often. And maybe this puts all of your experience i already mentioned we were thinking about that. Wed love to sub poderth and have a seat at the table when you start planning because, you know, people with intellectual and ....
Work,. 1979, i started working at the [speaker not understood] ~ colony, arkansas for kid with disabilities. When you get your printout, youll see a work history [speaker not understood] from 792006 at the San Francisco jazz [speaker not understood] local 2 ballpark. I look at all those years, its almost 30 years, will be 30 years in 2009. When i look at your work and when you cannot be respected in disability or been a disabled person and other in this world go, when they took over that building and when you mentioned glide, i have glide on me, i have black panthers on me. It makes me feel a sense that when i find that glide church was once a publishing company, they printed a book called [speaker not understood] the land grab in the city. And, so, i know today im right where i need to be. Ive always knew im a humanitarian. I was born in the month of may. And i know that our purpose in life is to up lift the human spirit and the h ....
Discussion of some kind of citywide initiative, citywide activities about this. Maybe we think about announcing it as a very special day. Maybe its a very special week. Theres a lot to talk about. I think all ages would be interested in this, as cathy mentioned, a lot of us dont know about this. Even people who are living here in spite of how high profile all the activities were. We were thinking that we can involve many other, you know, activists and artists in the community, access dance and bus buddies and the ada and how it impacted people with aids and so on and have resource fairs. My main point is that i think we can perhaps start thinking about this as a real opportunity to educate and inspire people and this doesnt happen too often. And maybe this puts all of your experience i already mentioned we were thinking about that. Wed love to sub poderth and have a seat at the table when you start planning because, you know, people with intellectual and disabilities are often kind of ....